Starts off fairly mundanely, to be honest, but things certainly pick up after Ulrike's little gang massacres the CI5 team.

The role of the gang's solicitor, Hockley, seems a bit odd – he may sympathise with their views but this doesn't stop him from owning a premium apartment and a brand new Porsche!

The scene where Doyle has to tell Cookie's wife about his death is excellent – we never see enough of this kind of thing in the series. (NB: Granada Plus chopped a bit of this.) Here's some dialogue from this superbly-acted scene: June: "No, no I don't believe it..."
Doyle: "Listen..."
June (now getting hysterical): "I don't want to listen, don't tell me, go away, it isn't true, I don't want to know!! GET OFF!!! It was you – you talked him into it: 'More money, more chances'. You bastard!! Bastard, bastard!! It's alright for you – you haven't got anyone; no kids, no wife. You can go on playing cowboys for the rest of your bloody miserable, selfish life!!"

Quite rightly Doyle has no answer for that. Yes, a tremendous dramatic moment there and great acting by Chrissie Cotterill.

The "courtroom" scenes are a tad corny, perhaps because they are slightly overacted.

And at this point the plot starts to get silly. Hockley sends the photos to the authorities yet surely after his visit from CI5, he must have suspected he was being watched?

And it's totally unbelievable that Ulrike happens to fall asleep while being held in custody! How convenient. And I suspect the trick with the clocks would have confounded the hundreds of airport passengers! Besides, when Cowley says the team have an hour to find the bombs before they detonate at five, Doyle has just walked past a clock that says 4.10!!

I don't understand the end of the interrogation: why does the final bomb "belong" to Ulrike and how did Doyle know that it would? No, just doesn't make sense, unless I've missed something. It's almost as though the writer had got all the characters into a tricky situation and then couldn't think of a logical way to get them out of it.

The final scenes involving the Bomb Squad are good, though.

A potentially strong episode ruined by a nonsensical ending. Not a good way to go out.

Hockley leaves the photos in a telephone box outside Temple tube station.

The exploding car (which injures the two court officials) may have been filmed in Lincoln's Inn Fields in Holborn, central London.

The Cortina with the false plates is parked outside the Royal Courts of Justice, also in Holborn. Note, however, the Courts building seen in the episode has since been completely replaced.

The gang attempt their escape via Luton Airport. (Thanks to Tony Mackay)

Sarah Neville went on to the excellent TV series Bust concerning a bankrupts businessman's (Paul Nicholas) dodgy dealings in an attempt to recoup his fortune.

All cult TV fans will, of course, remember Michael Praed as the eponymous hero in Robin of Sherwood. After (surprisingly) quitting this series he went on to supersoap Dynasty. Hasn't really done a lot of acting since but starred in a short-lived BBC series called Crown Prosecutor - evidently a rehash of the 1970s series Crown Court.

You might spot a young Simon Dutton (playing the strangely-named character "Tree"). He became a short-lived reincarnation of The Saint in 1988. (Actually I thought he was pretty good in the role but the series was often hampered by awful scripts).